SV: Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

Frantisek Hanzlik franta at hanzlici.cz
Sun May 3 23:48:57 UTC 2015


birger wrote:
> First of all, supporting multiple init systems is not something a distro
> wants to do.
> 
> It would involve forcing package maintainers to support them when getting
> enough package maintainers is a problem already.
> 
> The alternative is to create a respin with another init system and its own
> builds of any software using systemd. A big task.
> 
> And besides... Systemd is quite awesome. Especially for servers. play with
> cgroups, btrfs and selinux directly in the service file and you can have
> services running in your very own containers.

Hmm, I guess You want advice me, to bought some strictly limited (maybe
commercial) OS - and then shut up and be satisfied with I have. But this
fortunately is not Linux case...
Regarding cgroups/btrfs/selinux - they may be used independently of
systemd. And although I think SELinux is good thing and I use it
(regardless of systemd), things as cgroups and btrfs I never needed
(regardless of systemd). And I not want to 'play' with, I want to
foolproof system - and in my experience, systemd does not fall with
(after 4+ years of 'playing').



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